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Health The Resident Swine flu

Pandemic… or pandemonium?

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Published 03 May, 2009, 11:50

Is the sweeping swine flu virus a global pandemic or just another example of media pandemonium?

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With New York City a focal point of the virus outbreak, online journalist Lori ‘The Resident’ Harfenist investigates public opinion. Are people afraid that they're about to get caught up in the plotline of a cheap B-movie horror? Watch the video to find out.

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